Oh man Plan 9 broke my heart once already when they didn't become the Next Big Thing. I was digging their take on namespaces after seeing something similar for

Oh man Plan 9 broke my heart once already when they didn't become the Next Big Thing. I was digging their take on namespaces after seeing something similar for filesystems on Apollo's UNIX. I would love to "break glass" (I.e. temporarily gain privileged access) to a remote system's namepace and dtrace/systemtap running processeses without ever leaving my desktop.